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Past
May 5, 2018: I was a featured performer at Dictionary of Marx: A Multimedia Birthday Anniversary, where I shared an original piece about the 80th anniversary of my great-grandmother’s murder.
4/20/2018: I joined Lynn Melnick, Chet’la Sebree, Marina Blitshteyn, and Cathy Linh Che for a panel at Split This Rock entitled “Poetics in the Wake of Sexual, Gendered, and Inherited Violence.”
10/19/2017: I was a panelist at a conference hosted by the The University of Arizona Poetry Center. More information on the panel, entitled “Post Traumatic Lit Disorder: Writing as Performance Against Silence,” is here.
9/19/2017: Read at The Inner Loop reading series in DC, as one of the featured readers and participants in the Woodlawn/Arcadia Residency program.
4/15/2017: Read with the poet Sarah Lawson at PorchFest.
5/18/2016: Read my poetry at Ignition, a one-night gathering of queer poets prior to Capturing Fire, a festival featuring poets and artists from North America and The UK. Details here!
4/16/2016: I was on a panel about “Translation Ethics in the Digital World” at the Split This Rock Poetry Festival. Details here.
3/19/2016: With my Bellwether Education Partners colleague Kaitlin Pennington, I co-led a training for aspiring education writers. Details here.
3/6/2015: I joined other alumni of the Columbia University graduate writing program to talk about “Life After the MFA.”
3/5/2015: I read at KGB Bar in New York City as part of the Columbia Selects series. More here.
10/11/2014: I was a featured reader at my favorite series, the Brooklyn Ladies Text-Based Salon (BLT Salon). More details here.
9/22/2014: I was a guest on The Agenda, a Sirius XM radio news show. More information here.
8/19/2014: I read at The Inner Loop, a reading series in Washington, D.C. More details here.
5/4/2014: Featured reader at IGNITION. I was described as a “multi-genre wonder translator professor poet,” so that was fun. It was a great event–more info on Facebook here.
12/15/2013: Reader at PERFORMETRY (organized by”Writers on the Green Line”). Followed by an open mic! Bloombars in Washington, DC.
10/17/2013: Participant in “Bilingual Readings” at the American Literary Translators Association annual conference (Bloomington, IN). More information here.
2/23/2013: Reading at Brooklyn Ladies Text-Based Salon (BLT). More information on the BLT here!
08/02/2012: Reading for the launch of The Literary Review‘s newest issue. I read alongside poets Cindy Cruz and Geoffrey Nutter and fiction writer Martha Witt. Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, NY. The Outlet reviewed this reading here.
2/11/2012: Read at women’s text-based salon, monthly event hosted by poet-translator Montana Ray. Brooklyn, NY.
6/23/2011: Read at the “Summer Fun With Genre” series at Blue Angel Wines in Brooklyn, NY.
3/18/2011: Featured competitor (representing LitDrift.com) at Piethos III, a literary competition hosted by Slice Magazine. Brooklyn, NY.
2/28/2011: Read at LTAC literary translation reading series. New York, NY.
9/14/2010: Featured reader at Sideshow Queer Literary Carnival. New York, NY. Other readers included Melissa Febos (Whip Smart) and Rachel Simon (Theory of Orange). Photos here. (Cheryl B., the co-MC of Sideshow, recently passed away. She was a delightful reader, writer, and poet and an amazing member of the queer literary community. More about her here.)
11/5/2009: Featured nonfiction reader at Columbia MFA gallery night. New York, NY.
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